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About Arielle.

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Arielle Kaden is a 22-year-old writer from Randolph, New Jersey. She is a 2016 graduate of the Johns Hopkins University. At Hopkins, Arielle studied Creative Writing and Jewish studies and learned languages such as German and Yiddish. During her college years, Arielle received several research grants including a Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Research Fellowship and Dean's Undergraduate Research Award, in order to research the resurgence of Jewish life in Europe post-World War II.
 
Throughout college, Arielle travelled to several different European countries in order to study their modern Jewish communities and interview Jewish people. These countries included: Poland, Lithuania, Germany, and France. Arielle also visited Jewish sites in Belarus, the Czech Republic, Israel, and the United States. Arielle has made it her life’s work to learn about the histories of the places she visits and understand the issues of contemporary Jewish communities. Arielle is now living in Berlin, Germany, continuing her research of Berlin’s modern Jewish day community as a Fulbright scholar in the Fulbright Young American Journalism program. Arielle is currently writing a memoir about her undergraduate research experience. 

Recent happenings: Arielle presents her undergraduate research

In April 2016, Arielle presented her research that she conducted as a fellow in the Johns Hopkins University Woodrow Wilson Undergraduate Research Program. Her project, titled "Building a Jewish Future: The Resurgence of Jewish Life in Europe, Post World War II" detailed her travels to Warsaw, Krakow, Berlin, and Paris and interviewing people in each of their modern day Jewish communities and learning how these communities have rebuilt since the Holocaust.

Press

- July 2016 - Arielle's research poster is published on the Johns Hopkins University website.  
- April 2016 - Arielle is interviewed about her research experience in the Woodrow Wilson program for the
Johns Hopkins News-Letter. 
- May 2015 - Arielle's research is featured in the Johns Hopkins Arts and Sciences Magazine.
- April 2015 - A profile piece is written about Arielle and her research journey in the Johns Hopkins News-Letter.
- April 2012 - As a senior in high school, Arielle founded a club with her teacher called the Randolph High School Holocaust Remembrance Initiative. This is her interview in this Emmy Award nominated episode of New Jersey's Classroom Close-Up where she discusses the club and the work that they were doing.  
- 2010 - Arielle publishes her very first short story  8 Missed Birthdays  when it wins the "Most Highly Commended" award in the Tom Howard/ John H. Reid short story contest. Although she published this story when she was 15 years old, Arielle wrote the story when she was 13 years old for a reading class in middle school. The story is about a young Polish-Jewish girl named Celia and it follows her life in Europe as she tries to survive the Holocaust. 

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